Tag Archives: fear

The Gift of Love I Scorned and the Sorrow I Reaped

Someone once said that time heals all wounds; maybe. I can only speak from my own experience and my owned grief. What time has allowed me is plot and perspective to ponder what my life has been about. What my life could have been about, and what my life should have been about. Like rings […]

What Retirement Taught Me About My Professional Life

My professional life was all about people, procedures and producing profits. Unlike the vast majority of men who came before me, I was neither a farmer or shepherd, priest or solider. Instead, my daily bread was earned as a member of the modern age managerial class. A vocation birthed in post-industrial America when humans no […]

The Selling of Fear: The Salvation of Love

We live in a world that only seeks to sell us stuff. Everything from status to salvation is commoditized to try and separate us from our finite time, labored wages and our singular standing as children of God. Divinely created not to be mere objects that consume, but subjects that generously generate love. Every human […]

Fear is Our Foe: Love is Our Liberator

Fear, like desire, is one of evils most powerful tools. An existential scourge on all of humanity beginning with in the beginning. An ancient garden deception leading to the disfigurement and distortion of God’s good world and the humans created to control and care for it; our ancestors and ourselves. Creatures in rebellion because genuine […]

A Faith of Fear vs A Life of Love

I was blessed to be raised by parents who sincerely believe in God, and who surely believe in the unconditional love of God. A Christian home rooted in the ethic of love God and ALL your neighbors. The commandment in which the law, the prophets and the entire ministry of Jesus is summarized. Even though […]